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Rating: THE REVIEW
The Cure embodied in “Faith”, “Seventeen Seconds”, “The Top” and the masterpiece “Disintegration”, arrive with what I would define as the last stimulating and personalized album, “Wish” before being catapulted into the commercial and the ambiguity of an extraordinary group.
The idea of titling the opening track Open and the final one End is perfect, as if it were a foretelling of the future, a sort of farewell to that gloomy world and to everything they have managed to create over all these years, a skeleton of form of eros and pathos. The tracks are all intense and deep as always, like “Apart” and listening to all 12 tracks is tireless. “Apart” is the piercing pain of a thorn in the bleeding heart, a gaze seeking help, upwards, to God, while “From The Edge of The Deep Green Sea” and “Cut”, are the scream at the top of the lungs of a creature just out of its mother’s womb, the impact with life, the awakening of Eden and the strength to believe that life is a divine gift (the most beautiful of the entire album, in my opinion) I could listen to them dozens of times without getting tired of how extraordinary the energy Robert puts in them is, a tearing of nightmares that flow into a lake of pure gold.
This album is rage, struggle, energy, the clash between man and woman, it is everything that is within us, in the human being, everything that blends, everything that is desired even if it is in our hands but we do not know how to harness it, thus suffocating in our deepest self everything exploitable and shareable, simultaneously turning it into negativity and pessimism. “Wish”, compared to the previous masterpieces, is very fluctuating and I would say, a ray of sunshine in a terrible storm, and therefore somewhat out of their parameters and not comparable to the unique growth of Robert's expression, but nonetheless it is worthy of the name The Cure.
Robert desperate soul, immense soul, true and unique soul, always manages to paint what is lived inside with fear, the fear of saying and sharing, he manages to reach the most hidden, shameful and poignant depth of being, best expressing the soul, The Cure icon of my soul, and of those who do not want to admit it.
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The Cure's album Wish represents their last deeply personal and stimulating work before a commercial shift. The reviewer highlights the emotional depth, intense tracks, and vivid expressions of struggle, hope, and human complexity. Standout songs like 'Apart,' 'From The Edge of The Deep Green Sea,' and 'Cut' embody powerful emotional narratives. The album, while somewhat different from earlier masterpieces, remains a worthy and unique representation of The Cure's essence.
The Cure
The Cure are an English rock band formed in Crawley and led by singer-songwriter Robert Smith. Since the late 1970s they have moved between post-punk, gothic atmospheres and pop-oriented experiments, producing widely admired albums such as Disintegration and Pornography.89 Reviews
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By m
"Screaming your heart out is the best way to learn to sing."
"Wishes are as bitter as the stars that stutter them to our faces."
By Overkill
"Wish represents a compendium of stoic despair, regret, dreams, and flights of fancy."
"The incredible strength of this group is having managed to epicize moments that each of us has lived, at least in part."
By braveheart
An extraordinarily moody album in which one can easily shift from wild euphoria to deep melancholy.
To Wish Impossible Things is very beautiful too, with my favorite lyrics from the album, reflecting regret and lost hopes.
